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Telling the Future

Apr 2nd, 2008 by Kenny

From time immemorial humankind has tried to gain advance knowledge of things to come. The Old Testament of the Bible has numerous books of prophecy, though strangely many Christian fundamentalists now denounce fortune telling as a sin. Today many of us consult psychics, hoping for a glimpse of what tomorrow has in store. Popular newspapers and magazines invariably feature a horoscope column, and who wouldn’t like a sneak preview of next week’s winning lottery numbers.

Does the future already exist?

Is it really possible to tell the future? To answer that question we need to examine the fundamental nature of reality.

Let’s suppose that we really can predict the future with certainty. Our first reaction might be one of excitement and joy. Those winning lottery numbers are out there somewhere, ready for the taking.

But let’s think again. This means the future already exists, and our existence is a bit like being in a(n already made) movie. What we perceive as now is simply the frame currently being projected on the screen. But tomorrow, the day after, next week, next year and so on, until the end of the universe, are already in the can. Nothing we say, or think, or feel, or do really matters a jot. We are powerless puppets enslaved within an inflexible and inescapable destiny.

Wouldn’t that be nightmarish?

Fortunately, I don’t believe the true nature of reality to be that of fixed destiny. Despite the world appearing to be orderly and obeying the laws of cause and effect, science has discovered that at its most fundamental level the physical world is anything but orderly with each basic particle appearing to behave randomly. Usually, because we observe zillions of these tiny particles acting together, their individual randomness averages out and we perceive the illusion of order.

Examples of Precognition

Having concluded that the future doesn’t exist, it follows that it cannot be predicted. However, history is littered with examples of apparently amazing precognition. Here are just a few:

In 1966 a landslide of coal waste onto a school in Aberfan, Wales killed 28 adults and 116 children. Many people reported premonitions of the disaster, including a girl victim who told her mother of a dream the previous night of something black coming down over the school.

In the classic book “An Experiment With Time” engineer J W Dunne reports numerous minor details were foretold in his dreams.

A study made by WE Cox of numbers of train passengers found that significantly fewer people traveled on trains that were involved in accidents.

And my personal experience:

One Saturday as a child of about ten I became convinced that I would win the football pools (a weekly gambling game based on football results). All day long I repeated my belief to my family. On checking the football results I found I had won a minor dividend, an event of somewhat less than a 2% probability. I have never felt such a conviction before or since.

Can psychics and mediums predict the future?

Actually, we can all predict the future to a degree, simply based upon our general understanding and knowledge of present conditions. If Manchester United (a leading English football team) plays a non-league side we may reasonably predict that United will win easily. And we will most probably be right.

We should also note the possibility of the self-fulfilling prophecy. Where we believe that something will happen we consciously, and/or subconsciously, create the present conditions that increase its likelihood.

Psychics, and mediums by virtue of their contact with the Spirit world, have access to more information about the present than might generally be known through purely physical/sensory means.

Perhaps they can pick up an internal conflict in one football team, but a much greater sense of purpose and harmony in their equally matched opponents. Then the psychic has an edge in predicting the result of a match between the two, but might still be wrong.

Similarly in premonitions of disaster perhaps some sensitives might become aware of a loose bolt in an aircraft wing, or “see” a terrorist manufacturing a bomb is some dark cellar. Their own higher self has only to extrapolate to create images of doom, but of course the plane might survive its journey without incident, or the terrorist may be thwarted in his attempt to carry out his ghastly act.

According to this model mediums and psychics can’t predict the future with 100% certainty, but they can predict with an accuracy significantly in excess of that suggested by the laws of probability.

Johnny Finnis is the editor of new age spirituality – exploring the idea that this life, this world, is not the totality of our existence. In fact, it might be just one small part of something much bigger, just one tiny step along an infinite journey… Have your say on our blog A Spiritual Voice

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